It's not about 'reserving' it is about 'enthusiasm'.....same as that BS everyone went through with GMail 'invites'......"oh please give me one...I feel left out...my life is meaningless...I have no friends who will gift me one..."

i hid one of them updates from last month (3035583) seeing as i know i won't be updating win 7 from this machine (going to use this licence in new machine.. whenever that is...) no nagware for me so far.

I'm just waiting to see how Ashes runs on dx11. Then I'll set up a dual boot with a real copy of 10, see how much better it performs in dx12, and figure out my upgrade plans from there. $530 bucks should go further than three years, ain't upgrading this Space Heater 680 unless it's absolutely necessary.

Irrespective of 10, 7 stays 7. I've got my 98SE and XP cd's still lying around for when I need them too.

Oh dear, things aren't exactly as we may expect them to be, thus it must be a virus and/or spmething we must distrust.

Every time there is a new OS we heart/read the same bullshit about how it isn't for us, yet every time it is just opinions without any kind of substantial backup and data to verify anything. No, the mistakes of times past keep getting repeated and we keep cocking up because we refuse to believe we too are responsible for the mess that's been created through apathy.

OK....this time you're just plain nuts. The issue with this is NOT whether you wish one day to upgrade to 10 or not. I couldn't give a rat's arse either way what anyone wants to do.

What I DO care about is the 'subtle' misrepresentation of certain 'essential updates' as important to the OS/stability of the OS/protection of the OS.... when all they are is nag-ware to coerce you into Microsoft's next computer business model which apparently is not....buy it...and you get it....but....get it and then we have got YOU.

Then your life will be whatever commercial pay-per-use....pay-to-stay-working....whatever they care for.

and after I had removed said 'updates' AND hidden them, they were re-installed, I have since re-uninstalled and re-hidden the same 'updates' along with the 35 language packs that I had also hidden, but so far have not re -booted the computer to see if M$ is FORCING said 'updates' by any and ALL means.

and after I had removed said 'updates' AND hidden them, they were re-installed, I have since re-uninstalled and re-hidden the same 'updates' along with the 35 language packs that I had also hidden, but so far have not re -booted the computer to see if M$ is FORCING said 'updates' by any and ALL means.

harpo, the ghost NON-subscriber

which windows? in win 7 nothing is automatically installed or forced if you set it to manual update...